Bell v. State

Hornéy, J.,

delivered the opinion of the Court.

Jerome B. Bell (the defendant) has appealed from the judgments entered against him in the Criminal Court of Baltimore after his conviction on two separate indictments involving the theft of an automobile and one of the license plates from another.

Under one indictment the defendant was charged—together with a female co-defendant who did not appeal—with the larceny, receiving and unauthorized use of a 1955 Dodge sedan of the value of $1200, belonging to Frederick W. Burlcmar (the owner). Under the other indictment, he alone was charged with the…